Arkansas · Nonprofit
ARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FOUNDATION
ARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,453,331 to it, the largest being CHARLES M AND JOAN R TAYLOR FOUNDATION INC ($815,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Arkansas Educational Telecommunications Network Foundation does
Mission
The Arkansas Educational Telecommunications Network Foundation (dba arkansas pbs foundation) supports the mission of arkansas pbs to educate, inform, engage, and inspire lifelong learners across the state. Contributions from individuals, businesses, and foundations support national/local programming and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Programming acquisitions for broadcast on arkansas pbs's main channel and its subchannels (arkansas pbs kids, arkansas pbs world, and arkansas pbs create). Individual members, corporate sponsors, and foundation grants help support the costs of keeping high-quality public media programming available for broadcast on air and across a variety of digital platforms.
$1,590,674 spent63% of program spendingProduction and promotion costs for local programs to be broadcast on arkansas pbs and its various digital platforms. In addition to the programming purchases from pbs and other national public media distributors, arkansas pbs creates local productions highlighting the history, culture, and relevant public affairs of arkansas and its residents. Arkansas pbs foundation supports the creation of local production through grants, business sponsorships/underwriting, and major gifts from individuals.
$728,641 spent29% of program spendingPrinting and publication of monthly program guides for distribution to contributors. More than 24,000 members span across the state of arkansas, as well as mo, ok, tn, and la, who receive a monthly program guide as a benefit of their membership. The program guide provides background information on upcoming programs and highlights educational and outreach activities conducted by arkansas pbs for the benefit of all its viewers.
$205,388 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,524,703.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $7.7M to $10M (+33%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
94% of ARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Margaret Betley
CEO
Board chair
Edwin Mcclure
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $27k → $671k.
8 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
43% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 94% · 2019 46% · 2020 47% · 2021 35% · 2022 39% · 2023 49% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
38% of ARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FOUNDATION draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Arkansas, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $681k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Arkansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Arkansas Educational Television Co · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FOUNDATION?
- ARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,453,331 to it, the largest being CHARLES M AND JOAN R TAYLOR FOUNDATION INC ($815,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $2,453,331 in grants to ARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FOUNDATION, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FOUNDATION?
- CHARLES M AND JOAN R TAYLOR FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $815,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 39 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing